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Alaska.... 

Its Gold and 

Its Best 
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PROSPECTUS. 



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Under our plan all stand on an equal basis, 
no stock being set aside for an officer or director 
except as it is subscribed and paid for, the same 
as by other shareholders and if you become a 
shareholder you become a partner in proportion 
to your investment. This insures an equal chance 
to the smallest investor and absolute fairness for 
all concerned. 

President Chas. S. Hartwell is a trained executive, 
being- also President of the National Safety Match Co. 
of Chicago. Vice-President William T. Criswell has 
been officially connected with Alaskan trading- for 
many years, and the company is indeed fortunate in 
^ , .. having him at the head of the 

organization. enormously profitable trading 
department. Hon. Charles A. Keeler, the secretary 
and treasurer, is a man of weight and standing in the 
financial world and while the directors and principal 
stockholders are not men of great wealth, they are men 
of standing in this country and their honesty and 
integrity is unquestioned. 

Hon. Warren B. Hooker, one of the Directors, is 
Chairman of the River and Harbor Committee, the 
most important Committee in Congress with one 
exception. Alaska being a Territory and under the 
control of Congress, all matters relating- to transpor- 
tation and concessions for dredging are passed upon by 
the River and Harbor Committee, and with the Chair- 
man of that Committee one of our Directors, we are 



not likely to suffer in the general rush for Congress- 
ional favors as represented by way of exclusive rights 
and privileges. 

George M. Belden, M. E., our Field Manager, 
who in Colorado, Australia and vSouth America, has 
had experience in successful mining enterprises, is 
now in the neighborhood of Dawson City, prepared 
to bond and buy rich claims on the Bonanza and 
Last Chance Creeks and the Klondike, Yukon and 
Stewart Rivers. 

The strength of the company has secured for it, 
after thorough investigation, the co-operation of so 
distinguished a financier as ]Mr. vS. H. Gladstone, who 
has taken charge of its London 
A Powerful Ally office. :\Ir. Gladstone is one of 
111 the London's best known business 

Financial World. "^^^^- ^^^ partner is a director of 
the Union Bank in the English 
capital and his uncle is none other than the "Grand Old 
Man", the Right Honorable William E. Gladstone, 
while a cousin holds the well-nigh all-powerful 
position of Governor of the Bank of England. 

River Dredging having proved a most conspicuous 
success in Siberia and on the Pacific coast, this 
company will send by its first steamer up the Yukon 
next spring, the most powerful and scientifically- 




THIS PICTURE OF -OUR REPRESENTATIVE, MR. BELDEN, WAS TAKEN AT 
SEATTLE, TWO DAYS BEFORE SAILING FOR ALASKA, AND REPRESENTS HINt 
IN HIS SUMMER COSTUME. 



Large Funds opportunities that may offer for 

making large returns for this com- 

On nana tor p^ny. Another expedition will go up 

Judicious early in the spring, which will be 

InveSttnentS, followed at short intervals by other 

well equipped expeditions, one of 

which will be headed by Mr. T. J. Trafford Huteson, 

at present the New England representative of this 

company, but who early in 1896 was probably the 

first white man to prospect upon the Stewart River and 

realize its marvelous wealth. It was on this river 

that one Boston man took out f 100,000 from a single 

placer. Mr. Huteson will return 

Thoroughly to the Stewart and with the 

Posted on the experience of his previous trip 

Yukon District should secure for this company 

exceedingly rich claims. 

Where other companies will be hampered by 
Canadian laws and regulations, this company is in a 
position through its connections and consequent 
privileges, to reap the full benefit of its operations 
without let or hindrance on the part of the Dominion 
or provincial officials. 

To sum up, — this company, through its chartered 
rights, through its organization, by the personnel of 
its managment, in trading, in transportation, in 



Shareholders "'^"^"^^ ^^ dredging, in buy- 

Interested in '"^ ^""'^ operating claims, in 

iniciCMCU m ^ supplying the demands of the 

every enterprise miners, and through being 
of the Company, already organized and at work, 
is in a position to give an in- 
vestor greater returns for his money than probably 
any company organized since the Bell Telephone or 
Calumet & Hecla properties were incorporated. Early 
investors have already made 40 per cent, through the 
increase in the price of their stock. Further in- 
creases will surely come. 
ureal vVeaiin Persons going in now not only 

From Dividends. stand a chance of enormous 
wealth from dividends next 
spring, but will be able to reap immediate benefit 
from the enhancement of the stock. 

We believe that this is a great opportunity for 
making money. It is an opx3ortunity that may be lost 
any day through the arrival of news from the North- 
west which will put up the price of stock to its normal 

Join Us at Once ^^^^^- ^^ y^"-^ ^^^^^ ^^ joining 
For Your Own ^^^' ^°^ ^^^^^ ^"^'^ ^°°^ ^^^ 

Qqq^ should do so at once — to-day, 

and not come in after the sub- 
scription price has been raised. We trust you will 
act quickly, and send us such a sum as you may deem 
desirable. Price of stock 50 cents per share, par value 
$1.00, full paid and non-assessable, subject to no 
further call. 



certain that we shall be on the dividend paying- 
list as soon as they can be completed without 
regard to profits which we are certain to derive 
from our trading posts, or for profits which are 
probable from our mining ventures. 

Trading posts are being established for the winter 
under Mr. Criswell's direction. From this one source, 
in connection with the transportation interests, our 
company should make very 
Enormous Profits great profit, it win be in a 
From Trading;, position to take advantage of 

the desire of miners to realize 
at once upon their discoveries, even at a sacrifice, 
or from their desire to go home. There are now 
but two trading companies in addition to ours in the 
whole enormous field, and these two together are 
unable to supply more than a very small proportion 
of the demand for provisions 
cacti enterprise ^^d supplies. Letters received 

Helps strengthen from the Yukon this fall show 
and Assists the that even with the best of ar- 

Qxi-P|, rangements it will be impos- 

sible to satisfy all demands 
next spring, so that prices will remain at a great 
figure, which will give profit to this company from 
its being in a position to meet the demand at once. 
One expedition has already gone into the field, 
equipped for investment in good properties as well 
as ready to prospect or to take advantage of any 



-, ^^ ^ g-old-bcaring- g^eolog-ical formations 
.JVAAinfJiiHlgt: Oi ^^^-ji assure his securing- for us rich 
U60lOg;lC3l mining- properties. He will have 

PormatiOHS* men at work mining as early next 

spring as expeditions can leave here^ 
giving us a great advantage over companies organ- 
ized too late to send men this fall. He went in with 
double the estimated amount of supplies needed to 
carry his party through the winter, so they will not be 
weakened by privation, nor run the risk of breaking- 
down. Remember, we are the only company that 
was organized since the great discoveries of gold in 
Alaska that has a representative on the ground, own 
an interest in a boat on the Yukon River, have 
chartered steamers for transportation, obtained govern- 
ment concessions and made trading contracts for 
spring business. 

The company has already secured a large and 
speedy steamer, to carry 250 passengers and their 
freight, in addition to a great store of supplies for 

sale while the spring boom i«^ 
Transportation This steamer will leave /Seattle 

Department. ^^^^>^ ^^^'^y '^ ^^^ spril^ and 

subscriptions are now beii 
ceived from persons desiring quick passage to the 
gold fields. The stock of this company will be 
received as cash on account of passage money at 
the subscription price paid for it. 

The profits assured from contracts already- 
entered into relating to transportation, make it 



How to Invest. 

Subscription books are now open at the various 
offices of the Company and applications by mail for 
such a number of shares as may be desired, may be 
made on the enclosed form accompanied by check or 
Post Office order, made payable to 

T. J. Trafford Huteson, 

92 State Street, Boston, Mass. 

We were among the first in the field and 
shall be among the first to bring results. 

Correspondence Solicited. 
Personal Interviews Invited. 



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